35 Recorded February 22, 1973

Jayne Meadows, Henry Morgan, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson

Patricia May, [Carol Wimbish], [Jeanie Valdez] and [Kit Krause] work together in Laguna Hills and often take their work home with them: “We bring home wild baby animals”

The four young women work at Lion Country Safari, a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction in which patrons drive through what the company calls a “cageless zoo.” The women are nursery attendants (May is their supervisor) who routinely care for baby animals in their homes. At its peak in the late seventies Lion Country Safari had six locations, including parks in Georgia, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. Today only the original park in West Palm Beach, Florida remains. The California park operated from 1970 until 1984. Today, the land is home to a massive housing development.

Francis Daellenbach from Chugwater, Wyoming: “We live underground in a missile silo”

In the late fifties, the US military built nine silos for Atlas rockets around the Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne. The silos were built “coffin style” meaning that the rockets were stored horizontally. The system became obsolete rather quickly, and many of the silos were decommissioned and auctioned off to private owners. The unit purchased by the Daellenbachs originally cost the government $5.5 million to construct. Their winning bid was a bit over three thousand dollars. They took possession in 1966 and spent their weekends for several years getting it into habitable shape. Daellenbach works with precision tools and desired the climate control offered by the underground location to use his delicate instruments. Mr Daellenbach would live in the silo for more than thirty years until his death in 2002.

Special guest Robert Reed uses an Identikit to create a composite image of “suspect” Henry Morgan

Reed acts as a witness to a crime and describes Henry to a deputy pulled from the Los Angeles County police department who uses the Identikit to construct an image. The Identikit was introduced in the late fifties. It is a large wooden box which contains hundreds of plastic transparencies. They represent various hairlines, eyes, noses, chins and so on, and when combined based on a witness’ description can be used to create an image of a suspect. The Identikit was used in law enforcement for decades, but by the 1980s it would be phased out in favor of police artists and computer-generated renderings. The original series played with the Identikit on two occasions in 1960 [ E404 ] and 1961 [ E451 ]. Reed is best known for playing dad Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969-74), but while working on that series he also made occasional appearances on the crime drama Mannix (1967-75).

Mrs X from New York City: “My son is Tony Curtis”

Helen Schwartz was identified as “Mrs X” because Steve told the panel they were to identify her famous actor son, and Tony Curtis’ real name of Bernard Schwartz was well known. Helen and her husband Emanuel were emigrants from Hungary, and young Bernie only spoke Hungarian until he was six years old.